Can grapes bring you luck? Spaniards believe so, and at midnight on New Year's Eve all across the country it's a race to gobble 12 grapes all before the first minute of the year passes.

According to NPR, the 12 grapes New Year's tradition comes from Spain. On nochevieja (which translates to "old night,") Spaniards consume las doce uvas de la suerte (which translates to "the 12 ...

Across the globe, denizens are gearing up to celebrate the arrival of 2025. In some parts of the world, a new year also means drawing on old practices to symbolically usher in wealth and good luck.

Uvas de la suerte, or the 12 lucky grapes, may have started in the 1880s, when Madrid's "bourgeoisie" put their own spin on the "French custom of drinking Champagne and eating grapes on New Year's ...